Staff Product Engineer

Who you are

• Breadth of experience across infrastructure, backend, frontend and data
• Proven experience evolving systems for scale
• Product mindset, passionate about building the right thing
• Genuine excitement about the power of AI and how it will shape our profession
• Openness to learning our stack - We use the latest Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and PostgreSQL running on GCP. React + Typescript on the client backed by our shadcn design system

What the job involves

• We’re looking for exceptional Staff Engineers with a product-mindset to join our product teams to help build the future of Beam. It’s a passionate and growing team (doubled in size in 2026) that values autonomy, empowerment and bias-to-action. As we scale, the complexity of the problems we face continues to increase, especially in the implementation of AI in a scaled product
• Driving technical direction across our teams
• Building the systems that allow us to scale globally
• Continuously innovating on our use of AI internally to drive gains across product and engineering
• Releasing your work to 100,000+ users multiple times a day in tight AI driven iterations
• Building the products that will shape how public services are delivered globally
• Taking ownership over departmental technical direction

The application process

• We take hiring seriously. We have a 4-stage and an optional 5th interview process, giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you
• 30 mins with our Talent team
• 30 minute Interview with a Lead Engineer
• 1 hour technical test with two of our Senior Engineers
• 1 hour systems design interview with two of our Senior Engineers
• 30 minute product and cultural interview with one of our founders

Benefits

• Share options: Be a Beam owner with EMI-qualifying share options
• Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
• 1:1 workplace coaching with Oliva
• Your own financial well-being coach, through Bippit
• Generous Holiday - 25 days with 3 additional days over the Christmas period + bank holidays
• Work remotely up to 6 weeks a year
• Eligible for a 6-week sabbatical after 3 years in service
• Nursery scheme through Gogeta
• Healthcare cover through Benenden Health
• Enhanced parental leave: Primary Caregiver leave 18 weeks and Secondary Caregiver leave 4 weeks
• £200 WellBeam budget for activities enhancing wellbeing and professional development
• Annual membership to Shoreditch Exchange gym (London office only)
• Pension scheme where we contribute 4% of your salary and you contribute 5%.
• Free subscription to the Calm meditation app
• Discounted bike and accessories with Cyclescheme, and tech products with Techscheme